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From: julian@riacs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problem?
Message-ID: <628@hydra.riacs.edu>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 14:11:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: hydra.628
Posted: Fri Sep 18 14:11:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 15:58:36 EDT
References: <7040@dartvax.UUCP> <151@stech.UUCP>
Reply-To: julian@hydra.riacs.edu.UUCP (Julian E Gomez)
Organization: RIACS, Moffett Field, CA
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In article <151@stech.UUCP> sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:
> Those games which insist that you boot from them really don't, I've 
> discovered.  Just boot from the hard disk, insert the game floppy, and
> double click on the game icon.  I've not found one yet that will run in
> that way.

Here are a few:

MacAttack
Airborne!

Microsoft Flight Simulator absolutely insists on being the boot disk.
If it's not it will put up a message and refuse to run.

Shanghai will restart the machine if it's not the boot disk.  What's so
bad about that is that it doesn't restart the Mac properly, so the next
time you try to use your hard disk it has to go through the lengthy
verification procedure.

-- 
Scientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	julian@riacs.edu || {...decvax!}ames!riacs!julian